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This book investigates how social control has been used to how individuals, communities and societies respond to a variety of forms of deviant behaviour.
Bemærk: Kan ikke leveres før jul.
Wrongly convicted of the murder of a stranger, Jamie Morgan Kane entered the American prison system and was to stay there for 34 years. For the... Læs mere
Bemærk: Kan ikke leveres før jul.
This account challenges the conventional wisdom that America's prison crisis is of comparatively recent vintage, showing instead how a racial and punitive system of control emerged from the ashes of a progressive ideal.
Bemærk: Kan ikke leveres før jul.
Practical advice covering everything that someone with autism needs to know if they are going to prison. Based on his own experience, the author sheds light... Læs mere
Bemærk: Kan ikke leveres før jul.
The extraordinary human story of London's most infamous prison
Bemærk: Kan ikke leveres før jul.
Reveals the unnecessary and omnipresent violence in prisons, the heterogeneity of the prisoner population, and the realities that different prisoners navigate in order to survive.
Bemærk: Kan ikke leveres før jul.
Bemærk: Kan ikke leveres før jul.
Examines the causes for mass incarceration of Americans and calls for the reform of the bail system. Traces the history of... Læs mere
Bemærk: Kan ikke leveres før jul.
In The Modern Prison Paradox, Amy E. Lerman examines the shift from rehabilitation to punitivism that has taken place in the politics... Læs mere
Bemærk: Kan ikke leveres før jul.
Provides an explanation for the increase in number of people in US prisons by more than 450%. This book examines the issue through statewide, rural, and urban perspectives to explain how the expansion developed from surpluses of finance capital, labor, land, and state capacity.
Bemærk: Kan ikke leveres før jul.
Having gained access to California prisoners and corrections officials and to thousands of prisoners' written grievances and institutional responses, the authors take us inside one of the most significant, yet largely invisible, institutions in the United States.
Bemærk: Kan ikke leveres før jul.
Based on experiments on inmates in Philadelphia's Holmsburg Prison in the 1950s-1970s, this book raises provocative questions about human rights, prison treatment and medical and research ethics.